Next up for Hot Summer Nights and its new parent company, Theatre Raleigh, is a light and lively rendition of "Dames at Sea," a jaunty backstage and maritime musical mash-up, with music by Jim Wise and book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller. A parody of the spectacular 1930s movie musicals by legendary Hollywood director and choreographer Busby Berkeley (1895-1976), in which a plucky understudy becomes a huge star overnight, as the audience cheers every step of the way, "Dames at Sea" premiered Off-Off-Broadway in 1966, and opened Off-Broadway in 1968 and in London's West End in 1969.

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